John Singleton Quotes

When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.

I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.

I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn't fit into a particular box, and I wasn't a trained musician or performer, but history has perhaps proven that perhaps I have something to give.

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

I feel like I've been proving people wrong all my life.

People think that you're gonna come out, be a one hit wonder, and finished. You gotta prove 'em wrong.

I'm kind of a smaller guy in my given profession, and people always told me I'm too small, so I know how it feels to have people tell you you'll never be anything.

Women must follow their passion and dreams without fear.

In India, sports as a career has its own set of obstacles, be it from parents or society, but Harjeet, despite circumstances, and without any support decided to fight and lived his dream of being a remarkable player.

I'm very proud of the fact that we dispelled the myth about black athletes not being able to survive in Green Bay.

I don't really care anymore: I'm fiercely proud of the fact I've been able to make a career despite the fact I wasn't born into privately educated schools.

I was the first Indian to take on and beat the best in professional wrestling, but I certainly don't want to be the last.

I'm not U.S.A. Olympic image. I didn't go to college. I came from a different route.

I wanted to do something that nobody else was doing. I didn't have a mentor. There were no other women on the radio.

The EP is called 'Kiddo' because this has been an uphill battle for me. As a female in the industry, as a female of colour, some people will demean me. So it's like, 'OK, you wanna call me kiddo? I'll show you kiddo.'

The act of me just being robust in the world is so radical - it's so radical for a black woman to think she's going to be a star, because it takes so much to get there. It's still a battle every day, but I feel happy because I feel like I cracked the code and figured out how to work through it. Now I want to give the map to other women.